. According to its Energiewende policy, electricity supply from fluctuating renewables is supposed to further increase … assumptions on the future power plant portfolio as well as on battery degradation costs, however, wholesale arbitrage, reserve …

The emerging literature on power markets with high shares of fluctuating renewables suggests that more frequent start …-up procedures of thermal power plants may become an increasing concern, both for costs and possibly also for market design. Based on … official scenario assumptions, we investigate how start-ups and related costs develop in Germany, where the share of …

The emerging literature on power markets with high shares of fluctuating renewables suggests that more frequent start …-up procedures of thermal power plants may become an increasing concern, both for costs and possibly also for market design. Based on … official scenario assumptions, we investigate how start-ups and related costs develop in Germany, where the share of …

greenfield setting with high shares of renewables. The model captures multiple system values of power storage related to … uncertain, we carry out a range of sensitivity analyses, for example, with respect to the costs and availabilities of storage … and renewables. A common finding of these sensitivities is that – under very high renewable shares – the storage …

the expansion of variable renewables leads to a strong decrease of the right-hand side of the residual load curve …-dispatchable renewables would render storage investments largely obsolete under the assumption of a flexible system. In contrast, further …

and discusses possible interactions with other flexibility options. With increasing shares of fluctuating renewables …

short term, the further expansion of electricity generation from fluctuating renewables will be possible in Germany without …

short term, the further expansion of electricity generation from fluctuating renewables will be possible in Germany without …

renewable surpluses. Allowing curtailment of 1% of the yearly feed-in of non-dispatchable renewables would render storage … shift toward fluctuating renewables. …